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Summer Horizon | Big Sur, California

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:June 20, 2019
  • Post category:Big Sur / California Photography / Travel Photography
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Seen through a line of stately coastal cypress trees, fog rests along the horizon of the deep blue Pacific Ocean off the California coast of Big Sur Having spent a…

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Recent work | Hopeful yellow flowers

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:March 28, 2019
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Monterey / Personal Work
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From recent travels to California, these vivid yellow pincushion protea flowers stood in bright contrast to their dark green foliage. Spotted while on a waterfront walk in Monterey, with blustery…

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Late winter rain | California

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:December 10, 2018
  • Post category:California Photography / Fine Art Prints / Personal Work
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Sitting at my desk here in wintery Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is easy for me to get nostalgic for the winter landscape of my childhood in coastal Northern California. The wet,…

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In full bloom, Paphiopedilum maudiae

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:December 6, 2018
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Personal Work
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While familiar in form to most of us, orchid flowers retain a sense of the profoundly exotic, especially those blooms of the Paphiopedilum variety. A pale green and white-striped lady…

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Transitional Light | Manitoba, Canada

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:September 27, 2018
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Personal Work / Stories & Studies
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Spring and autumn are rich with photographic inspiration, contrasted in blooming flowers and fresh growth or colourful falling leaves. However, my favourite aspect of these two transitional seasons is the…

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Rare Iris Series

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:July 5, 2018
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Personal Work / Studies
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Of all the flowers I collected and grew in my coastal California garden, this dark, mysterious iris was an all-time favorite. The colors of the petals were so rich, so…

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Winter Solstice

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:December 21, 2017
  • Post category:Personal Work
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"This is the solstice, the still point, of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the…

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Autumnal Gold

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:October 23, 2017
  • Post category:Personal Work / Travel Photography
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Seasons of transition always prompt me to pick up my camera more often; the slanting, evocative light of the sun low in the sky, the luminous colors of fresh spring…

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Small Yellow Songbird

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:September 23, 2017
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Personal Work
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As the days gradually become shorter and the season shifts to cooler temperatures, autumn is turning the leaves a lovely golden color before they fall. I am reminded of a…

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Ravishing ranunculus

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:April 19, 2011
  • Post category:Bloom | Spent | Flower Photography / Fine Art Prints / Macro Photography / Stock Photography
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Ravishing ranunculus

Ravishing ranunculus, originally uploaded by A.p.K. The colors that emerge in nature are sometimes so startlingly brilliant, it can be impossible to look away. These beauties grow in my garden,…

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Abstract rain, night

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:February 18, 2011
  • Post category:Abstract Photography / Fine Art Prints / Stock Photography
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Glittering raindrops fall during an evening storm, caught in the golden light of a streetlamp Glittering raindrops fall across a windshield during an evening storm, illuminated by a street light.…

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